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• Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

  Horace

  Guilt, Pale, Clear

  "Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

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• To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Song, Should Have, Victory

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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• The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Men, Poor

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• All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

  Hosea Ballou

  Possession, Clear, Conscience

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• One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

  George Sand

  Happiness, Dream, Simple

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• I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

  Alistair Overeem

  Sleep, Ufc, Mma

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• What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Regret, Mean

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• Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty-he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Distance, Sleep, Night

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• The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

  Edward Gibbon

  Happiness, Firsts, Clear

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.127

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• A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Men, Lasts

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• It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

  Chris Kyle

  Jobs, Regret, War

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

  Brian Houston

  Jesus, Live Life, Heart

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015

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• Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

  Grover Cleveland

  Loyalty, Achievement, Community

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• A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, Self, Deception

  New Statesman and Society (Magazine), February 8, 1991.

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• Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience.

  Jay Paterno

  World, Clear, Left

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• Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

  Criss Jami

  Father, Son, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.70, Criss Jami

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• The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Argus Hamilton

  Memories, Mistake, Short Memory

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• If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Deceit, Loyal, Want

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.603, Stanford University Press

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• But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Memories, Results, Clear

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• A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Despair, Stout

  "The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

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• I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I'm with who I'm with, I love who I love and I'm if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn't sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.

  Amber Heard

  Hate, Lying, Sleep

  "Amber Heard Comes Out As Lesbian At Glaad Event" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. December 6, 2010.

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• The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

  William B. Ogden

  Simple, Hands, Ingredients

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• I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Responsibility, Would Be

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• I still oppose "Visit Myanmar Year," and I would ask tourists to stay away. Burma is not going to run away. They should come back to Burma at a time when it is a democratic society where people are secure - where there is justice, where there is rule of law. They'll have a much better time. And they can travel around Burma with a clear conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Running, Years, Law

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